package config import ( "encoding/json" "errors" "time" ) // Duration is just an alias for time.Duration that allows // serialization to YAML as well as JSON. type Duration struct { time.Duration `validate:"required"` } // ErrDurationMustBeString is returned when a non-string value is // presented to be deserialized as a ConfigDuration var ErrDurationMustBeString = errors.New("cannot JSON unmarshal something other than a string into a ConfigDuration") // UnmarshalJSON parses a string into a ConfigDuration using // time.ParseDuration. If the input does not unmarshal as a // string, then UnmarshalJSON returns ErrDurationMustBeString. func (d *Duration) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error { s := "" err := json.Unmarshal(b, &s) if err != nil { var jsonUnmarshalTypeErr *json.UnmarshalTypeError if errors.As(err, &jsonUnmarshalTypeErr) { return ErrDurationMustBeString } return err } dd, err := time.ParseDuration(s) d.Duration = dd return err } // MarshalJSON returns the string form of the duration, as a byte array. func (d Duration) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) { return []byte(d.Duration.String()), nil } // UnmarshalYAML uses the same format as JSON, but is called by the YAML // parser (vs. the JSON parser). func (d *Duration) UnmarshalYAML(unmarshal func(interface{}) error) error { var s string err := unmarshal(&s) if err != nil { return err } dur, err := time.ParseDuration(s) if err != nil { return err } d.Duration = dur return nil }